Abstinence-only sexual education does not equip young people with the information they need to safeguard their health and well-being, and it does not address the needs of teenagers in real life. The first study, "Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs," conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. on behalf of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, found that students in abstinence-only-until-marriage programs had a similar number of sexual partners and a similar age of first intercourse as their peers in the control group (Patrick and Monica). Furthermore, the rate of unprotected sexual intercourse was the same in both the research and control groups. The second study, "Emerging Answers 2007: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce